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  1. Inspect Redis commands using MONITOR

    Take a look at a live log of all commands run on your Redis server.

    Eebs Kobeissi
    March 15, 2021
    • Redis
    • Debugging
    • Web
  2. React Server Components: What are They?

    React Server Components provide a seamless mechanism for rendering components on the server at any point in the app lifecycle. Should you experiment on this?

    Rakesh Arunachalam
    February 23, 2021
    • React
    • JavaScript
    • Web
  3. Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

    Test-driven development, object-oriented design, and functional programming converge on some similar ideas.

    Joël Quenneville
    February 18, 2021
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • TDD
    • Testing
    • Functional Programming
    • Good Code
  4. Scoping .or clauses with common joins

    Extract common clauses when using Active Record’s .or method.

    Eebs Kobeissi
    February 1, 2021
    • Active Record
    • Rails
    • Web
  5. Functional Programming as Algebra

    Let’s return to everyone’s “favorite” subject. 🙄

    EJ Mitchell
    January 26, 2021
    • Functional Programming
    • Mathematics
    • Learning
    • Web
    • Elm
    • Scala
  6. Testing Objects with a Functional Mindset

    Some ideas from functional programming can help us improve the unit tests for our object-oriented code.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 19, 2021
    • Web
    • Functional Programming
    • Testing
    • Good Code
    • Ruby
  7. Server, They Wrote

    A case of how to squeeze your server for every last 💧.

    EJ Mitchell
    January 15, 2021
    • Ubuntu
    • Optimization
    • Server Management
    • Debugging
    • Web
    • Learning
  8. Alt vs Figcaption

    Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.

    Elaina Natario
    December 1, 2020
    • Web
    • Accessibility
    • Frontend
    • HTML
    • Images
  9. Redirecting routes in a Phoenix application using plugs

    Let’s explore a pragmatic, flexible, and testable approach to route redirection.

    Wil Hall
    October 21, 2020
    • Web
    • Elixir
    • Phoenix
  10. Debugging a missing PostgreSQL connection on macOS

    could not connect to server: No such file or directory. Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket?

    Mike Burns
    October 14, 2020
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
    • macOS
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